In short: this website sets no cookies and does not track you. If you join the waitlist, we keep your email address to send you one email, when Plainlamp opens.
Who we are
Plainlamp is a business in the Netherlands, registered with the Chamber of Commerce (KvK) under number 42193177. We decide what happens to the data on this page. You can reach us at hello@
Visiting the website
The website sets no cookies, and it has no analytics or tracking. It loads nothing from other companies. Our host, Cloudflare, receives your IP address and the technical details of each request, because it delivers the pages and protects the site from abuse.
The waitlist
When you sign up for the waitlist, we store:
- your email address
- your answer to “What do you read?”, if you give one
- the page where you signed up, and which website’s link brought you there, if the link says so (for example LinkedIn)
- when you signed up, and when you confirmed
- what you agreed to: “We send you one email when Plainlamp opens. Nothing else. Then we delete your address.”
Why. To send you one email when Plainlamp opens. First we send you an email to confirm your address, so that nobody can sign up someone else. The legal basis is your consent (GDPR, article 6(1)(a)).
Protection against misuse. So that one person cannot send many sign-ups, we count the sign-ups from each internet connection for one day. For this we keep a scrambled copy of your IP address, not the address itself, and we delete it the next day. The legal basis is our legitimate interest in protecting the waitlist and the people whose addresses could be misused (GDPR, article 6(1)(f)).
How long. If you do not confirm within 7 days, we delete your address. After you confirm, we keep it until we have sent the email that Plainlamp is open. Then we delete the list.
Where. Cloudflare stores the list for us in a database in the European Union, and sends our emails. Cloudflare works for us as a processor, under a data processing agreement.
We do not sell or share your address, and we do not use it for anything else.
Emailing us
If you write to us, we use your message only to answer you.
Your rights
You can ask us which data we have about you, and ask us to correct or delete it. You can withdraw your consent at any time: use the link in our email, or write to us. We answer within one month.
If you think we handle your data wrongly, you can complain to the Dutch Data Protection Authority, the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens.
Last updated: 2 November 2026.